From Mycenae to Homer - A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art

First published in 1958, this book aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek 'Dark Ages'), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, the Homeric epics show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean.

List of contents

Chronological Table. Introduction 1. Records of Society in the Second Millennium 2. Mycenaean Art in Its Setting 3. Eastern Poetry and Mycenaean Poetry 4. Mycenaean Poetry 5. The Collapse of Mycenaean Civilisation and the Ionian Migration 6. Poetry Between the Fall of Mycenae and the Time of Homer 7. Protogeometric and Geometric Art 8. Homer and His Immediate Predecessors 9. Conclusion and Summary. Maps

About the author

T. Webster

Product details

• Authors: T B L Webster, T. Webster, T. B. L. Webster, Webster T.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2014
• EAN: 9781138021396
• ISBN: 978-1-138-02139-6
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Homer
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History of Art, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient Greek style